86 Wis. 2d 572 - Wright v. Hasley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2008 · most notably 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten (1987), Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Buell (1987)
4 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · 21 Wis. 2d 349 - Alsteen v. Gehl · 62 Wis. 2d 370 - School District No. 1 v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . shall be rendered if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, to gether with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. . . .””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“no longer accord the trial court wide latitude in deciding to grant or deny summary judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.